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  1. Re: Fighting it is evil on Apple Will Fight 'Right To Repair' Legislation (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "There are very, very few items that should survive use for at least a couple of years."

    What??? Pretty much everything I own I expect to last more then 2 years. Most of the things I own are 10+ years old (heck even my desktop is 7).

  2. Re: the real reason theyre arguing it. on Apple Will Fight 'Right To Repair' Legislation (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Pretty sure we have Motorola to thank for the cellphone as a status symbol. Remember the Razr.

  3. Re:I don't like the EHang 184 design on Big Week For Drones: Dubai Permits Passenger-Carrying Drone; Kenya Finally Approves Commercial Use (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah Boeing. Because Boeing builds in multiple redundancies that don't exist on a quad copter due to their limited payload capacity.

  4. Re:I don't like the EHang 184 design on Big Week For Drones: Dubai Permits Passenger-Carrying Drone; Kenya Finally Approves Commercial Use (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, just having 4 motors where one failure is catastrophic.

    Quad copters are not more stable then helicopters, in fact it is the opposite. Quad-copters require constant small adjustments several times a second and connot be flown entirely manually. Quad copters are like the F117. they are inherently unstable and thus highly maneuverable. Also Quadcopters rarely have variable pitch propellers and thus cannot auto-rotate making them far more dangerous for passenger transport.

  5. Re:I don't like the EHang 184 design on Big Week For Drones: Dubai Permits Passenger-Carrying Drone; Kenya Finally Approves Commercial Use (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    How are drones more inherently stable? They cannot fly without computer control. A helicopter can easily be flown through mechanical links alone while trying that with a quad would end in a crash soon after takeoff.

  6. Re:More mocking on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But when you graduate from University and the only job you can land is a barista at Starbucks it's not like home ownership is the first thing on your mind. Name me one fucking new grad who expects a 4 bedroom home and audi to be given them.

    You make up this ridiculous scenario to justify your disdain, and it's sad because the fact of the matter is they won't be able to support Social Security when you become eligible. Not because they didn't try, but because circumstances forced them on a less successful path.

    Before you come back at me, understand this. I am in my late 40's, and after your rant I don't really care what you have to say.

  7. Re:I don't mean to go all 'Papierin, mein herr,' b on US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While that's a lovely fiction created by our government, it really does not pass constitutional muster.

    It really is cut and dry as written and not really open to "exceptions".

    "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

    It is easy for the government to stay within the law, just issue a warrant stating what you are looking for, but the 4th is specifically designed to stop fishing expeditions. That along with the right to travel freely really makes these laws questionable on the surface.

    Kent v Dulles:
    The right to travel is a part of the 'liberty' of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment. If that "liberty" is to be regulated, it must be pursuant to the law-making functions of the Congress. . . . . Freedom of movement across frontiers in either direction, and inside frontiers as well, was a part of our heritage. Travel abroad, like travel within the country, . . . may be as close to the heart of the individual as the choice of what he eats, or wears, or reads. Freedom of movement is basic in our scheme of values.

  8. Re:Not what he said. on Tesla Employee Calls For Unionization, Musk Says That's 'Morally Outrageous' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The claim that a guy who has worked there for 4 years (and only now is speaking up) is a UAW plant is the "morally outrageous" part.

  9. Re: Waiting for the alien spacecraft on Scientists Finally Turn Hydrogen Into a Metal, Ending a 80-Year Quest (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a belief based on science that it only took 25 Gigapascals. Let's not take things as fact just because they are based on our incomplete understanding of the natural world.

  10. Re: Non Issue on Vivaldi CEO: Stop Your Anti-Competitive Practices With Edge, Microsoft! (betanews.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Yet these same people are perfectly fine with systemd"

    You've never been to this site before have you? I mean the claim that people are not /were not up in arms over systemd is down right laughable. Either that or your a YUUUGE Trump fan and are jumping on the alternative facts bandwagon.

    regardless, thanks for playing.

  11. Re:Using the cloud is so safe and secure... on The 32-Bit Dog Ate 16 Million Kids' CS Homework (code.org) · · Score: 1

    Why did the device report a successful save? I mean, if they need to tell you your files weren't saved then what kind of caching operation do they have that allows for over an hour of saves failing and no notification sent to the user?

  12. The Goddess Asphalta beats Google anyday on Google Maps Starts Showing Parking Availability For Some Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    She is the goddess of parking, and has provided me with rock star spots in San Francisco, New York, LA, San Diego, Boston, and Providence consistently to the amazement of my friends and acquaintances.

    and screw Karen Stock as we have been praying for parking since the 90's.

  13. Re:Oh that is just textbook xkcd... on Dutch Developer Added Backdoor To Websites He Built, Phished Over 20,000 Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Comic from 2010, gotta wonder if that is where the idea originated.

  14. Re:Why not name him? on Dutch Developer Added Backdoor To Websites He Built, Phished Over 20,000 Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wow, what's the recidivism rate in Europe compared to America? Yet you seem to think there system is worse then our lock up everyone we don't like policy.

    Sorry but an American critiquing anyone else's prison system is the height of hypocrisy.

  15. Re:Your move, Assange.... on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case"

    Clemency means mercy, not pardon. I would say a May release is clemency.

  16. Re:this gives me an idea on The Flying Lily Camera Drone is Dead, Buyers Will Be Refunded (mashable.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next time you have an idea to defraud people, you probably shouldn't post it on a public forum. Just pm it to me and I'll let you know how effective it was.

  17. Too long, too late on The Flying Lily Camera Drone is Dead, Buyers Will Be Refunded (mashable.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Probably didn't help that many drones appeared on the market in the past year with the same capabilities. I can walk into a Best Buy and buy a drone that can follow and film me today.

  18. Re:Jeff Bezos is an ASSHOLE. on Amazon Still Lags Behind Apple, Google in Greenpeace Renewable Energy Report (greenpeace.org) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't you be on Twitter Mr. President-Elect?

  19. You think you have a say in how your pension is invested?

  20. Re:1st Million coins on Bitcoin Is Crashing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn. I enjoy good snark.

    I congratulate you on your ability to call out my horrendous spelling and grammar.

  21. Re:WW3 is going to be a nightmare on Pentagon Successfully Tests Micro-Drone Swarm (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    No, I think 1 nuke could do far more damage to a city then all the micro drones in the world.

  22. Re: What are you talking about you fucking retard on Pentagon Successfully Tests Micro-Drone Swarm (phys.org) · · Score: 0

    Ask China if Trump is pissing them off

  23. "The idiot progressives hate and belittle everyone who dares dissent"

    hypocritical alert.

  24. Re:That's the wrong number of patents on IBM Is First Company To Get 8,000 US Patents In One Year, Breaking Record (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What was wrong with the 8088, besides the 8bit bus?

  25. You really do sound like a two year old with your little tantrum there.

    You made a claim and you refuse to back it up? Fine, then you should understand that people will see that as an extremely childish position and ignore you in the future. Now finish your peas and go to bed.